"What were doing this lady?" She was protesting the government's agreement with Conoco Phillips.
"So called girlfriend" Is that an important part of your argument? At least they can have a relationship. At least a man can take an interest in Rahnuma. Unlike your Nethri.
It is not the so called "National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources,Power and Ports". It is actually called that and they act accordingly.
"They never want development" They do want development of Bangladesh but on different terms.
Yes we need gas and coal. And yes any democratically elected government can make decisions for the country.
But the people of the same country have the right to protest if they disagree and to challenge the government when they believe necessary. Its called democracy. In your demcracy just because you won the most seats does not mean you can protect your own criminals and do whatever you want.
Anyway - if BNP made the same deal you would have protested the same deal!
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
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> Rahnuma Ahmed was amongst around twenty people who were injured as police
> clashed with protesters at a rally held near the National Press Club in
> Dhaka.
> Members of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources,
> Power and Ports were protesting against the government bid to give lease of two
> deep-sea blocks to US oil company ConocoPhillips South Asia New Venture Ltd for
> oil-gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal, which they say is against the interest
> of Bangladesh and is designed to profit a few corrupt individuals.
> The police blockaded the rally near the secretariat, and baton charged the
> protesters as they approached the barricade. Writer and anthropologist Rahnuma
> Ahmed was one of several protesters who were injured during the clashes. The
> government plans to sign a contract with Connoco Phillips on the 16th June
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> Rahnuma Ahmed (centre) challenging police blockade near
> National Press Club Dhaka. 14th June 2011. Photo Hasan Raja
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> Rahnuma Ahmed was injured during the clash. 14th June
> 2011. Photo Hasan Raja
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> Rahnuma Ahmed injured during the clash. 14th Jume 2011.
> Photo Hasan Rajahttp://www.shahidulnews.com/2011/06/rahnuma-ahmed-injured/
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> The gift of a `death squad'
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> by rahnuma ahmed
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> June 8th, 2011
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> A `death squad' was the BNP-Jamaat government's gift to the nation, a gift
> that has been nurtured and defended by two successive governments, each claiming
> to be vastly different to the previous one.
> Claiming not only to be better, but morally superior.
> The death-knell was struck more than seven years ago, on June 2, 2003, when
> the cabinet committee on Law and Order decided to form the Rapid Action
> Battalion (RAB). Those present were the committee president Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, law minister Moudud
> Ahmed, home minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, education minister Omar Farooq,
> and state minister for home affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar.
> RAB was formally created eight months later, in March 2004, a composite force
> comprising elite members from the army, navy, air force, the police, and members
> of other law enforcement groups. It began full operations in June, the same
> year.
> Remember Fakhruddin Ahmed, the ex-World Bank guy who led the
> military-installed caretaker government (2007-2008), who claimed to be driven by
> the objective of "holding a free, fair and credible election" which will truly
> reflect the "will of the people"? Who saw himself as a "champion or leader"
> motivated by the aim of "strengthening Bangladesh's democratic order"? (Time, March 22, 2007).
> Well, if you search the records, it turns out that around 315 persons were
> killed extra-judicially under his, and general Moeen U Ahmed's, 23-month long
> emergency rule. Of these, the deaths of more than 250 persons were allegedly
> crossfire killings (`Bangladesh 2008.
> Insidious militarisation and illegal emergency,' Asian Human Rights Commission,
> December 2008).
> Even if, for arguments sake, these persons were hardened criminals, how is
> the democratic functioning of state institutions strengthened by officials of
> its elite anti-crime, anti-terror force behaving exactly as criminals do?
> By killing point-blank. By making up stories later of
> crossfires, shootouts and encounters, which every Bangladeshi knows to be
> untrue. I'm sure even their kids know that. I would have died of shame if my
> father had worked for RAB. I agree that kids don't choose their parents, let
> alone their dad's occupation but thank heaven, for big — very big — mercies!
> And before that, surely you remember Khaleda Zia's stunning electoral victory
> because of the BNP's No 1 campaign promise: to improve law-and-order in the
> country? This of course didn't materialise, which made what the Awami League
> said in its 2008 electoral manifesto pretty accurate: extra-judicial killings had become the norm,
> the rule of law had disappeared. For, at the end of the BNP-Jamaat
> government's rule, the country's elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism force had
> been implicated in the unlawful killing of at least 350 people in custody.
> Additionally, of allegedly torturing hundreds more.
> These minor matters however did not deter Khaleda Zia's government from
> awarding Swadhinata Padak, the most-prestigious national award, to RAB on March
> 23, 2006 for their "outstanding performance in maintaining law and order." It
> did not deter her government from awarding police medals to 28 RAB officers the
> next year. All of these officers, according to AHRC, have allegedly been
> involved in serious human rights violations, including extra-judicial
> killing.
> And if one were to tote up the figures since January 6, 2009 — since the
> Awami League-led grand alliance's assumption of office — apparently, close to
> 200 people have been killed in RAB operations.
> The director general of RAB had acknowledged 577 deaths, a figure which was
> later upped, in March 2010, to 622. Since extra-judicial killings have not
> ceased, official figures would now presumably be higher. Human rights groups in
> Bangladesh, however think that the number
> of crossfire deaths since RAB's inception has crossed a thousand.
> Recently, the New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the government to
> either take major steps towards making RAB accountable, to reform it within the
> next six months, or to disband it altogether (Crossfire, HRW, May 10, 2011). When Nurul
> Kabir was asked to comment on HRW's urgent plea on a live TV talk show, he
> replied, our human rights organisations too would demand the same thing if they
> could.
> How is democracy strengthened by giving killers legal impunity? For, as
> lawyers, journalists and human rights activists repeatedly point out, RAB enjoys
> impunity. A state of affairs enabled by the Armed Police Battalions ordinance,
> 1979, its 2003 amendment (on the basis of which RAB was formed), and the much
> older, colonial-era Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.
> RAB enjoys impunity because of governmental secrecy. Rules regulating RAB's
> conduct in its performance of law enforcement tasks were drafted and put into
> effect in 2005, but these rules have never been made public. Additionally, the
> 1979 ordinance and the 2003 amendment created special internal courts similar to
> a military court mar
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